Ryanmf

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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Are you suggesting that every pro media application released before March 1, 2012 was not safely distributed? I guess I should step back a bit and make my argument more clear. I'm not opposed to the concept of sandboxing, I recognize the be
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
You're technically correct. They're just disallowed from supporting plugins in the manner that they have been on every platform for 20 or 30 years.
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
No technical limitation that I can think of prevents the scenario you've described. As a practical matter, it would require anything up to and including a full rewrite of every pro media creation app on the market. The standard to date has
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Maybe. I hope not. All the filmmakers/editors I know still use a previous version of Final Cut, many of them really like some of the features of Final Cut X (syncing is apparently dead easy, nearly automagic), and remain hopeful that Apple
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
1. By the letter of the law, Mac App Store apps are to be sandboxed, which means no /Library access, which means no plug-ins. In practice, Logic, Mainstage, Final Cut, and others are currently available in the Mac App Store. To me, the only
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Apple needs to do better than this. For the duration of the company's existence, one of their biggest customer segments has been the creative industry. I can't think of a single pro audio/video/graphic/etc app that doesn't make extensive us
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Tried that out, it works well, but also revealed another limitation—it seems as if I can only trigger two pads concurrently. That may be less a flaw in your app and more an inherent reality resulting from the fact that my keyboard wasn't ne
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
You passed the 16th note high hat test! Well done. FWIW, you said "mp3" but I just used the first folder of one-shot samples I came across, which happened to be WAVs and worked fine, but may have contributed to Chrome crashing when I hit th
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Fancy seeing you here. Thank you. I get quite a lot of use out of it.
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Same issue here, Nexus S GSM, Android 4.0.3 Support was pleasant but didn't have any solutions. The rep I chatted with indicated that the upload dates for any updated installers would be visible on the website, unfortunately that info isn't
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
There's some speculation on the Ars forum that if UMG aren't just making this up, their contract with Google could call into question YouTube's status as a primarily user-generated content-based site, and perhaps render them ineligible for
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Nitpick: I agree with much of what you've said here, but as it pertains to Spotify, the majors have them by the balls, and the financial predicament that puts them in likely has some influence on their outrageously low payout rates which ar
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
who would have been popular in a classic promotion environment wat Because the time and energy of the world's hackers is best spent on cargo cult business models attempting to mimic successes of yore? How about developing tools to facilit
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
I hate this argument. So let's take it a step further. How can this model scale down to unpopular acts? Or untalented ones? Or people who just started making art last week? Because everyone who makes any art at all is entitled to compensati
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
On the topic of roving backscatter vans: “From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be,”…says [Joe Reiss, Vice President of Marketing at backscatter developer American Science and Engineering,
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
I suspect you're right that the amount of energy used to download the information and run the mechanism to print it is greater than the energy required to download and display it temporarily. Also, thermal paper is apparently non-recyclable
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
A Google Calendar/Tasks-polling, Arduino-driven thermal printer with one press printouts has been somewhere on my "eventual weekend projects" list for a while. I really like this idea. I think the services it supports will make or break it.
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Oh, come on. I sort of get the "quips that don't add materially to the discussion get all the downvotes" sentiment, but a well executed, topically relevant Mel Brooks joke in the gray? On a Sunday? We're very puzzled.
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
He also suspects we're a decade or less from discovery of life on another body in our solar system. I'm not skeptical of the singularity but I can see how/why an intelligent person could be. (Though I do feel it's worth considering that sem
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Fwiw: I hadn't heard of you until I saw this post. I took a look at the website, and having seen that and read the article decided to sign up. I was immediately prompted to sign in with Facebook, and I closed the tab.
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Going to keep most of my crazy opinions to myself on this one, but a few points: 1. If someone dropped several thousand dollars in seed money in my lap today and said "Hire some people, establish a profitable business," I would feel more en
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Ugh—glad I'm in no way responsible for a potentially interesting discussion devolving into Yet Another Internet Dickwaving Match. Thanks for the downvotes, btw. /s If you want to interpret my decision to describe my admittedly statistically
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
As long as we're being pedantic: 1. The first word I ever sounded out on my own (at least in an adult's presence) was "Mobil"—from the sign above the gas station near our home in Glendale, CA. ( Très Américain, non? ) For all I know this wa
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
If it hadn't been for watching Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow at that age (c.1988), I wouldn't have been able to participate in the mind bending parlor trick wherein my father handed his two year old son a box of cereal, and I promptly s
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When Steve Jobs was my age, he made mistakes…(makemistakdotes.tumblr.com)
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
I spent my adolescent life in private, Catholic schools in Southern California in the 90's and 00's. The percentage of kids choosing not to get an education there was at least as high (obviously we're both speculating a bit here). That wasn
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
From the article: "I assume that back in the 1940s, a prof couldn’t really just give all A’s to his or her classes: someone would probably notice and say something. But now we really can, and it’s been that way for awhile." US College e
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Completely anecdotal counter-response: In many of the social circles I move in (including the preponderance of my college friends, an extended music crowd here in LA, friends from high school when my focus was primarily sports, etc.) I ei
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
I don't have the time this afternoon to find hard stats on this, but if you were to plot active userbase over total internet users worldwide for, lets say, AIM & Livejournal c.2004, Friendster c.2006, MySpace c.2008, and Facebook and Tw
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
The rest of the world lives inside Facebook. For now. To me, there's exactly one compelling thing about Facebook: It illustrated that normal humans will join and use a social network. Beyond that, I don't see any reason why their adoption

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